The One Lone Good Thing about Being a Landlord!

Been really busy around here. Working on filling one of our rentals. Not a favorite task at all.

A picture from way back when when I planted my first herb garden.

Eight years ago I was roaming the world a single gal and had
recently purchased my first home. It was
perfect for a first home. Three bedroom,
two bath, with room to dig in the soil. It
was even pink. I loved decorating,
painting, planting and making my little house a home.

Not long after getting married the hubs and I decided to
find a place that we could make “ours”.
We up rooted from my first home and bought a second home a little over a
mile a way and we began the life as Landlords.

It has been interesting, challenging and down right annoying
some days. Not the funnest job I have had, but we get by. We are at that time again
where we have said goodbye to last year’s tenants and are welcoming a new
family. The newbies have a signed a two
year lease, hooray. Let’s hope they can
keep to their end of the bargain. That tends to be a problem with a lot of the renters we have had.

With the house being a rental for the past five years most
of many of the perennials I planted didn’t survive. But a handful did: Oregano in my former herb
garden, lavender at the front door, rhubarb from my roommates Amy’s parent’s
house, a few hidden strawberry plants that I bought on one of my journeys to
the Oregon
coast, lilacs, and salvia. Since many of
the plants are pushing eight years old, they are in need of a little thinning
and a lot of TLC.

Today as I was working at the house and having yet another
garage door repair done the kids and I played in the dirt in the back
yard. I was able to bring home some oregano,
lilac and strawberry plants. I even got
in on the rhubarb harvest, since it looks like the tenants weed whacked the
majority of the plant when they were mowing this last week.

That is the best part yet of being a landlord, to be able to
visit my old plants and take some to my new home. Yes, the simple things in life make me happy!